Heady exhilarating often astonishing New York Times Iridescently original deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading Brian Eno Be prepared to reevaluate your relationship with the amazing life forms with whom we share the planet. Fascinating innovative and thought provoking I thoroughly recommend Ways of Being Dr Jane Goodall DBERecent years have seen rapid advances in artificial intelligence which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time we are becoming more aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along unrecognized. These other beings are the animals plants and natural systems that surround us and are slowly revealing their complexity and knowledge just as the new technologies weve built are threatening to cause their extinction and ours.In Ways of Being writer and artist James Bridle considers the fascinating uncanny and multiple ways of existing on earth. What can we learn from these other forms of intelligence and personhood and how can we change our societies to live more equitably with one another and the nonhuman world From Greek oracles to octopuses forests to satellites Bridle tells a radical new story about ecology technology and intelligence. We must they argue expand our definition of these terms to build a meaningful and free relationship with the nonhuman one based on solidarity and cognitive diversity. We have so much to learn and many worlds to gain.